Incremental development today is far from the path of least resistance. To do it, you'll need the ability to navigate dozens of regulatory barriers.
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We need people who will build in the places where big, corporate developers won’t. But how do we get enough small-scale developers back to make a difference?
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An unproductive intersection looks different to different people: engineers, departments of transportation, tax assessors, etc. But bringing it to life starts with seeing it through still someone else’s eyes.
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An unproductive intersection looks different to different people: engineers, departments of transportation, tax assessors, etc. But bringing it to life starts with seeing it through still someone else’s eyes.
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An urban photographer reflects on the reactions he got when he started capturing what the American urban landscape is really like—parking lots, declining neighborhoods, tract homes, and all.
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Atlanta is one of the fastest gentrifying cities in the country. King Williams, an Atlanta-based writer and documentary filmmaker, describes what makes that city’s experience with gentrification unique, why gentrification is avoidable, and why Atlanta’s middle-class is now facing displacement too.
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Bringing a neighborhood back from the brink of ruin, one building at a time, is hard, thankless work—like raising bees when you could just go buy a jar of honey. But when it works, each successful project helps “pollinate” the surrounding area with the seeds of revival, in a virtuous cycle.
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Why build a downtown transit system if you’re just going to close it at peak demand?
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What would the opposite of the Strong Towns approach look like?
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Road transportation is the leading contributor to air pollution, and dense, auto-dependent cities are most at risk.
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Marian Liou is the founder of We Love BuHi, a social enterprise organization, that helps to showcase local ethnic restaurants and works with restaurant owners to build a better neighborhood.
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We're about to unwind a huge experiment and it's not likely to go smoothly. Anything we want to accomplish is going to require extraordinary creativity, resourcefulness and political prowess. That's where the Incremental Development Alliance comes in.
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We've all looked at a property or lot in our community and thought to ourselves: "If only somebody would do something with that." Well perhaps that somebody is you!
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